Decimetre

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Decimetre is a subdivision of the metre unit. The deci prefix stands for 0.1 therefore, 1 decimetre = 0.1 metre units. Metre is a unit of measurement of length. The definition for metre is the following:

1 metre is the distance light travels in 1/299 792 458 of a second in vacuum.

Metre is commonly accepted with the American spelling, meter.

1 metre is also 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the Earth's equator to the North Pole measured on the circumference through Paris